18 May 2007
How Far Should a Job Screening Go?

Gee, why am I not surprised by this? They routinely sample your urine, run credit checks and hunt down your kindergarten classmates for references, why shouldn't they want fingerprints?

Why does this continue? Simple: because we, as a nation, continue to allow it. I certainly hope this fellows sister finds another job. With an employer who understands that they're hiring an employee, not purchasing a slave.

My sister is getting screened for a programming position with a financial firm. I was alarmed to hear she'll be getting fingerprinted at the Sheriff's Office as part of the screening process. Instantly I conjure up scenes of frame-ups and corporate scandals. I want to know, should this raise a flag? Would you submit to fingerprinting, blood tests and who knows what else (financial, genetic code, and so forth) for a programming position?

(link) [Slashdot]

06:45 /Politics | 2 comments | permanent link

Study shows ag market concentration increasing

This is a good trick, as the market is already so highly concentrated as to defy belief. What the article completely misses, however, is the reason that this concentration has happened: government intervention. Instead, the NFU is calling for more "public policy intervention", which will assuredly only make the problem worse.

And so it goes.

Agricultural market concentration is rising steadily, according to a study released today by National Farmers Union.

(link) [The Prairie Star]

06:38 /Agriculture | 0 comments | permanent link